Everything You Need to Know About Employee Collaboration

Employee collaboration is a business concept which underlines how processes are carried out within organisations. Without the proper tools and strategies, employee collaboration can be hard to foster in the workplace.

IoT and wearable tech (which will, in the future, become an important part of collaboration between staff)

All of these engagement solutions rely of course on communication and effective technology and infrastructure to facilitate teamwork. When it comes to improving collaboration strategy, the above mentioned tools should be optimised and used correctly, otherwise a company’s employee engagement strategy will not reach its full potential. On the blog, we outline the main reasons why collaboration might fail:

Our collaboration blog posts are largely focused on the importance of intranets in facilitating collaboration and employee engagement in a company.

For instance, our organisational culture and the intranet blog post explains the need for clear goal definitions and management of intranets to ensure ongoing development. Intranets should be regularly optimised in order to encourage productivity and morale. Ongoing improvements to a company intranet drives engagement and productivity and in turn, increases profit.

One of the largest employee trends in recent years is remote working, which has been on the rise thanks largely to enabling technology such as mobile, faster internet speeds and, as explained in this blog post - intranets and the distributed workforce, more powerful and engaging intranets. Successful intranets designed with remote workers in mind include online collaboration tools such as IM, wikis, message boards and profiles as well as shared workspaces which allow for good communication.

Some believe intranets are out-dated platforms that have no place in business, however, new cloud and other technologies mean that community-centric and CMS platforms are more accessible and relevant than ever before. Read about modern intranet uses in our post, the rebirth of the intranet.

Social Networking at Work

Another topic discussed at length on the Elcom blog is the use of social intranet tools to boost engagement and collaboration. As we already know, engagement and productivity are linked when it comes to intranets. Modern intranet platforms include a wide array of social tools for employee use. These, as well as other tools (blogging, forums, wikis, social feeds, Q&A sections), help to establish a working intranet which provides many benefits to an organisation. You can expect benefits like:

A more recent blog post, improving connection, communication and collaboration, sums up how intranet and social tools can enable collaboration in an organisation. By implementing and optimising intranets and social networking to suit your organisation’s needs you can not only expect increased revenue, but also higher employee morale, better customer service and an overall sense of engagement.

See all of our blog posts about improving employee collaboration in your organisation here.

Master Online Collaboration Guide

Need more information on mastering collaboration in your digital workplace? Our online collaboration guide outlines the information on establishing better collaboration procedures and optimizing your existing ones. You will find key insights into common collaboration challenges and strategies and tools to overcome these. Along the way we'll also look at how to measure effectiveness.

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